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- Title
The classing gaze and its gendering effects: (dis)-respectability, emotional (in)-competency, and the counselling experiences of domestically violent Taiwanese men.
- Authors
Chen, Bo-Wei; Tang, Wen-Hui Anna; Wang, Hong-Zen
- Abstract
Research on domestically violent men typically takes an oppositional logic of gender. While the significance of class in researching domestically violent men is identified, class and gender are often treated as separate entities that do not complicate each other. Drawing upon group observations and in-depth interviews, this paper identifies how intersections of class and gender manifest in the counselling experiences of domestically violent Taiwanese men. From a Bourdieusian feminist analysis, the authors analyse (1) how class distinctions serve to (re)produce gendered hierarchy; (2) how contradictory experiences of gender reveal a relational understanding of class; and (3) how the gendered nature of domestically violent men is inscribed with a meaning of (working) class specificity for maintaining middle-class 'purity'. In analysing men's multiple and conflicting experiences, this paper contributes to research on domestically violent men by showing how class and gender are actively constructed and not produced in a monolithic/invariant way.
- Subjects
TAIWAN; DOMESTIC violence; MIDDLE class men; VIOLENT men; FEMINIST criticism; SOCIAL classes; BOURDIEU, Pierre, 1930-2002; INTERSECTIONALITY; HISTORY of Taiwan -- 2000-; SOCIAL history
- Publication
Sociological Review, 2014, Vol 62, Issue 4, p780
- ISSN
0038-0261
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1111/1467-954X.12207